Winston S ChurchillThe People's Rights London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, only printing. Paperback. This is the first edition, first state of this striking, scarce, and fragile early collection of Churchill's speeches. In 1904, Churchill quit the Conservative Party and joined the Liberals, beginning a dynamic chapter in his political career that saw him champion progressive causes and be branded a traitor to his class. In 1910, when The People's Rights was published, Winston Churchill was a powerful political force and a member of the Cabinet. From December 3-11, 1909 Churchill was on the campaign trail on behalf of the Liberals. The People's Rights is a distillation of these nine days of speeches, criticizing the House of Lords (which had rejected the Liberal Government's budget, thus precipitating the campaign) and championing Free Trade, a graduated income tax, luxury tax, and surtaxes on unearned income. Churchill's efforts were not wasted; as a result of the election, the Liberals would achieve a slim majority and passage of their budget. The People's Rights was published in an exceptionally perishable form, in bright yellow-orange paper wraps (with a halftone photo of Churchill on the cover) and printed on cheap, pulp paper. Consequently few copies survive, and wear, losses, and general deterioration is common to those copies that endure. There are two states of this first and only printing. The first state features and Appendix and an Index (at pages 149-152), while the second replaces the Index with a second Appendix. Here is the desirable first edition, first state. Given the inherent fragility of the edition, this copy is in very good condition. The illustrated wraps remain bright and firmly attached. The front cover is notably complete, with only fractional loss to the corners and trivial edge wear. The rear cover shows a .5 x .75 inch loss at the lower left corner but is otherwise complete. The spine shows some loss at the heel to a maximum depth of .75 inch, minor chipping at the head, and an abrasion just above and partially impacting the price. All title, author, and publisher print remains intact and clearly legible. The contents are toned, as inevitable with the cheap pulp paper, but both less toned and less brittle than we often see. First state is confirmed by a single appendix, an index, and p.71 numbered '1'. We find no previous ownership marks. Light spotting appears confined to the half title, title, and final Index pages. The final Index page shows a 2 inch closed tear. An original folded four-page leaflet advertisement and order form titled "Trade List of The Daily Mail Sixpenny Novels" is laid in. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A31.2.a, Woods/ICS A16(aa), Langworth p.97

INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD COMPANY.INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD "3 FEEDS FOR ONE CENT" COLORFUL BROADSIDE. Litho. Dept. of International Stock Food Company, n.d. (ca 1910). - 20 1/2" x 28 1/4" colorful chromolithograph that promotes how International Stock Food will make the sows raise more healthy pigs. An elaborate and colorful broadside that was taken from a book given to purchasers of 25 pounds of International Stock Animal Feed. The lithographs were originally folded within the book so it is normal to see horizontal and vertical folds. The company was founded in Minneapolis in 1886, by Marion Willis Savage, and still is in operation today. It was sold in 2007 to new owners and the headquarters are now located in Canada. Savage manufactured and sold animal feed as well as veterinary supplies and used these posters as a means of advertising. The front side of the poster is colorful and promotes the use of hog feed in order to help sows to raise more healthy pigs. Testimonials tell of one sow raising 21 pigs or three sows raising 52 pigs. The reverse side contains testimonials from successful users of the feed. The company further says "It keeps sows healthy and extra vigorous so that they will give more and richer milk and insures their raising more pigs, if a practical test does not prove this true we will not charge you a cent for all you feed. Is this fair?" As a way of promoting his 3 Feeds For One Cent, Savage purchased, exhibited, and raced horses. The stable included Creseus, Directum, Arion, Minor Heir,and the legendary Dan Patch for whom he paid $60,000.00 in 1902. In 1906, Dan Patch would break the world record by completing the mile in 1 minute and 55 seconds at the Minnesota State Fair. The record stood for 54 years. In 1909 Dan Patch injured one of his legs. On July 4, 1916, both Dan Patch and M. W. Savage became ill. While Mr. Savage was recovering from surgery, he learned that his favorite race horse had died. Less than a day later, on July 12, Savage also died, his physician stated the cause of death was the shock of losing Dan Patch. M. W. Savage was 57 years old at the time of his death. An excellent display piece.

LEFLER (Heinrich)The Emperor's Nightingale Vienna 1910 - LEFLER (Heinrich): Die Nachtigall [The Emperor&#146;s Nightingale]. (Märchen Kelender by Hans Christian Andersen). Vienna, ca.1910. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR drawing illustrating a poignant scene from one of Andersen&#146;s famous series of Fairy Tales, rendered as a calendar by Lefler in collaboration with his brother-in-law Joseph Urban. Measures 7 x 9 3/16 inches, mounted on thin card, matted and framed. Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919) worked primarily in Vienna as a member of the Künstlerhaus (1891) and by late 1890s he became one of Austria&#146;s first artists to design posters, then an emerging and highly popular medium. Together with Urban, he designed costumes, interiors, furniture and accessories. In 1900 they co-founded the Hagenbund, an artists&#146; cooperative that exhibited works by a number of important figures including Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. From 1903-1910 Lefler taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. This image is considered amongst the most beautiful designs in his oeuvre.

(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WAGNER, RichardThe Ring of the Niblung A Trilogy with a Prelude London: William Heinemann,, 1910-11. The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie; Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. 2 volumes, quarto. Original full vellum, titles and decorations to spines and front boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, yellow silk ties. Each volume housed in a purple quarter morocco slipcase and grey cloth chemise. 64 tipped-in colour plates and 23 black and white line drawings. Vellum slightly mottled, endpapers lightly tanned, occasional mild spotting to margins of text block. An excellent set in lightly rubbed slipcases. Signed limited edition, each volume one of 1,150 numbered copies signed by Rackham.

FATHER TUCK'S PICTURE BUILDING BLOCKS FAIRY TALES. FATHER TUCK'S PICTURE BUILDING BLOCKS. London: Raphael Tuck, no date, circa 1910. 4to (8 1/2 x 11"), flexible pictorial card covers, slight bit of spine wear else Fine and in unused condition. Inside there are 8 full page color illustrated pages divided into a total of 96 squares that illustrate 16 fairy tales. Some tales included are Cinderella, Jack & the Beanstalk, Puss In Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Goose Girl, Hansel & Gretel, Beauty & The Beast, Hop 'O My Thumb, Sleeping Beauty, Jack the Giant Killer and more. By following the instructions inside the rear cover the child can make 12 picture building blocks formed with interlocking paper joints so that no glue is needed. Then by changing the sides of the cubes a single fairy tale can be illustrated. Rare in unused condition.

Nursery Specimens]: [Rochester Color Plates]:SPECIMEN BOOK OF THE HOOPES BRO. & THOMAS COMPANY NURSERY, CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED TWELVE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES]. Rochester, N.Y. [ca. 1880-1910]. - 112 color plates. Original black cloth, wallet-style binding. Heavily worn. Folds open into eight panels, with each row of plates connected with pink linen straps. Some light wear and soiling to plates. Some contemporary notations. In a cloth clamshell case. Good. Extensive salesman's nursery specimen book from the Hoopes Bro. & Thomas Company nursery of West Chester, Pennsylvania, containing one hundred twelve chromolithographic plates. This book contains a mixture of plates, primarily from the Vredenburg and Rochester Lithograph Companies, both located in Rochester, N.Y. The plates range in date from the 1880s to the early 20th century. Specimens on offer include and extensive selection of plums, pears, cherries, apples, peaches, grapes, berries, roses, flowering shrubs, and trees.

Baum, L. FrankThe Emerald City of Oz Chicago: Reilly & Britton, [1910]. First edition. Original light blue cloth with full-size color pictorial insert on cover depicting a number of the characters driving through the city in a toy donkey-drawn carriage. First edition, first state with light blue cloth, five titles on verso of ownership page, two-color endpapers in orange and black and sixteen full-page color playes by John R. Neill (later copies have 12). A stunning copy with the silver and black both present on rabbit on spine and both hinges in tact with no signs of starting. The brilliant color plates indicate a very early first issue imprinting, with the metalic green block (appearing on some illustrations) extremely bright and reflective. Very minor cover wear, occasional browning to a few plates but unobstrusive and minor. A fine copy of a book seldom found in this conditon in the first issue state.

Montaigne, Michel de; Emerson, Ralph WaldoThe Works of Michel De Montaigne (Ten Volumes) New York: Edwin C. Hill, 1910. No jacket. The 1910 Emerson edition of the The Works of Michel De Montaigne, complete in ten volumes: nine of essays, and a tenth of 'life and letters'. An out of sequence copy in a limited edition of 1050 printed copies.Translated by Charles Cotton. Revised with a preface by William Carew Hazlett. Introductory essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Original binding: blue card boards with brown cloth at spine, title labels. Top edges gilt. Red & black lettering on title pages. Each volume has both a b&w tissue-guarded frontispiece and then a hand colored tissue-guarded color frontispiece of the same engraving following it, with three additional tissue-guarded plates in each volume; these include Pietro Michis' 'Pope Leo X taking his last farewell to Raphael'; Pio Ricci's 'The Confidant'; Juan Leon Gerome's 'Phyrrhic Dance'; etc., etc. Spines of all volumes sunned, generally bumped at head and tail; boards show minor wear/damp damage, in places peeling a little at edges and corners, rubbed/torn a little on most boards. Scans available on request to give a better idea of condition. Contents, for the most part, remain very good, clean and sound throughout. Exceptions: half-title and plates detached in volume one, but otherwise fine; minor foxing to front endpaper and following page of volume five. With notes and index at close of volume ten. TPW. First Edition. hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

John Thomson [?]Original Full-Length Photograph of a Chinese Girl Holding Umbrella and Flowers, ca. 1910, Colored, Mounted and Framed, by Thomson [?] NA 1910 - Photo Size: 32.7*12cm, Frame Size: 35.2*14.7cm. Colored and mounted on cardboard and framed. Signed in fountain pen at bottom right. The upper line looks something like "Chinese Thomson", but the lower line is not decipherable. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

Robert FrostRobert Frost Signed Portrait n.p., n.d.. 6.25" x 7.25". "Portrait Signed ""Robert Frost"" and, in pencil, by the artist, ""Richard Hood,"" in the lower blank area. Engraving, 4"" x 5.5"" image, overall 6.25"" x 7.25"". Minor rippling at left and right blank edges. Fine condition.Thomas Richard Hood (1910-1995) was a graphic designer, director of the exhibits program at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), director of the Pennsylvania Art Program in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and a former president of the American Color Print Society."

WAIN, Louis |Three Little Kittens Painting Book London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1910. - A Very Scarce Louis Wain Painting BookWAIN, Louis. Three Little Kittens Painting Book. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [n.d., ca. 1910]. Small quarto (9 1/16 x 7 inches: 230 x 177 mm.). 20 pp (including wrappers). Four full-page illustrations in full color with duplicate brown line drawings opposite, designed to be hand colored by the owner (the second drawing already expertly colored). Original color pictorial wrappers. A very fine example of a fragile rarity."You will be pleased to see your old friends the "Three Little Kittens," here you have a picture to paint of them crying over their lost mittens, and then happy at having found them, afterwards dancing round their Mummy with the Pie, and lastly you have them washing their mittens The young artist must prepare his tints upon a white plate or palette. He must compare his colours with those of the picture he is about to copy, and before he begins to paint (Instructions for Young Artists (inside front wrapper)Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series No. 4063.At the end of the last century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist who went mad, became a household name as an illustrator of cats, whom he depicted in all sorts of activities, from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars, attending dances, and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" (H.G. Wells)."From 1883, Wain began to draw cats as they had never been drawn before, cats in humorous guises, in human situations, but always beautifully handled [a]lthough he was sometimes forced to draw dogs before he became well-known!" (Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914 ) . [Attributes: First Edition]

[TEA - INDIA].[TEA - INDIA]. Taylor's Maps of the Following Tea Districts: Darjeeling, Terai, Jalpaiguri and Dooars, Darrang, Golaghat, Jorhat, Nowgong, Sibsagar,Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Sylhet with Complete Index to All Tea Gardens. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1910. Oblong folio. Size: 50 x 37,5 cm. Title printed in red and black + pp. (28) + index pp. 14. With 11 coloured maps of the tea districts. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering, rubbed, rebacked and recased. Some outer marginal loss to the title and short marginal tears to a few text leaves. Only edition of this comprehensive work on the tea industry in India at the time. Each map presented with a text leaf listing the tea estates in the area with their acreage, nearest railway station, telegraph office, etc. Rare, impressive study of tea cultivation in India.

George ElliotGeorge Elliot's Novels sp;- London & Edinburgh - William Blackwood & Sons, 1910 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A seven volume set of novels by George ElliotComprising; Felix Holt, Silas Marner, Romola, Daniel Deronda, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Mill on the FlossMary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Condition: In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally smart with just some slight rubbing. Internally firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED..

(SUN TZU) GILES, Lionel (trans.) London: Luzac & Co., Printed by E. J. Brill, Leyden, , 1910. The Oldest Military Treatise in the World. Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical Notes ... Tall octavo. Original yellow printed wraps. Housed in a plush-lined, black cloth flat back box, title gilt to the spine. Wraps overall slightly spotted and soiled, spine skilfully restored, contents clean, sound and partially unopened, a very good copy. First edition thus, arguably the best translation of Sun Tzu in the twentieth century. At the time of his translation, Giles was assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum; he was probably the leading Sinologue of his day. It was not until the publication in 1963 of Samuel B. Griffith's translation that Giles met any sort of challenge at all. While Griffith's diction may be more fluent to the modern reader than Giles's, the latter's scholarly apparatus remains peerless. There had been two previous attempts at putting Sun Tzu into a modern European language: Amiot's French version of 1782, and Calthrop's English translation of 1905 (revised in 1908). Giles is amusingly waspish about both: "Père Amiot appears to have enjoyed no small reputation as a sinologue in his day … But his so-called translation … if placed side by side with the original, is seen at once to be little more than an imposture. It contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not write, and very little indeed of what he did." Meanwhile Calthrop's 1905 edition demonstrates that "the translator's knowledge of Chinese was far too scanty to fit him to grapple with the manifold difficulties of Sun Tzu"; and in the revised 1908 edition, "Some of the grosser blunders have been rectified and lacunae filled up, but on the other hand a certain number of new mistakes appear." The work had specific relevance with world war looming, and is dedicated to the translator's brother Captain Valentine Giles, R.G., "in the hope that a work 2400 years old may yet contain lessons worth consideration by the soldier of to-day". Fragile and highly elusive, a very desirable copy.

William Edward SoothillThe Analects of Confucius, by William Edward Soothill, Principal of the Imperial University, Shansi. Original First Edition, 1910 Yokohama: Printed by the Fukuin Printing Co., 1910 - Octavo, 19.1*13.7*4.5cm, viii+1028p. Some general wear to spine and outer covers, otherwise a fine copy. Text in English and Chinese. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]